According to traffic police, on the morning of February 4, at the 655th kilometer of the M-4 Don highway, the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter bus driver drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided with a MAZ truck.

“As a result of the accident, two passengers of the bus died, three more passengers received injuries and were hospitalized,” the traffic police quoted RIA Novosti as saying.

Earlier, the site kp.ru reported that in Tver they organized a check on the fact of injuring an elderly passenger of the bus.